ANSWER TO MR HORNE.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3747, 30 December 1880, Page 2

ANSWER TO MR HORNE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sir,—Evidently Mr Horn has mistaken Mr Brown, and failed to fellow up hit own line of argument. He cannot get away from tbe old creed, viz.: that man is composed of two distinct natures—of sonl tad body. But tJ.t doo: '..ie is not

taught by Mr Brown; neither does he teach the resurrection of the same particles of matter thrown off by man daring his probation here on earth, or that composing his body at death. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou re* turn*' is the sentence passed uponvan in his ono distinct nature. Again, it is plainly taught that the dead shall be raised up. Your correspondent has the same objection as did the false apostles and sceptics of Corinth, and asks—" How are the dead raised up? and with nhat' body do they come P"—or, in other words, in what manner can the dead be raised after they hare been turned to dust, mixed with other bodies, and even become a part of other bodies P and, if this is the case, with what sort of bodies will they rise from the grave P With such as they had on earth P or with others of a differ* ent material P I answer with the apostle—" That which thou sowest is not quickened except, it die; neither is it the same body that shall be ; but God giveth to every sec i his own body." And thus the faithfnl seed after corrupting and turning to dust will spring up into a, new and more glorious life. This will be done in the infinite wisdom, according to the sovereign will, and by the almighty power of God, but after a manner inexplicable to us. The identity of the particles of matter, as necessary to the resurrection of the same person is nowhere taught in the Scriptures. God has many lt other ways of prewiring personal idmtitu. It is true that exlmly the sHoe particles of matter do not constitute our bodies for two hours in any part of our lives; yet we are the same persons from childhood to old age. If coal or wood when burned loses not a particle, but only undergoes a change, where is the physical impossibility in the resurrection P Is it beyond the power of the Great Architect of the Universe to collect every solitary particle necessary to the identification of His masterpiece, man? Bat on the ether hand it is stated that the only resurrection possible is that as given by Swedenborge and the Spiritualists—that there is no such thing as death, that the soul or spirit that is in the body makes the body lire, and that the soul never dies, bat goes into another body immediately after death. Then, are all animals in possession of a like power, a soul, which keeps them alive, and occupy some other body after death P We have no conception of a nothing passing off into a something. It will be found that man owes his power, not to * soul_never yet discovered, but to a\well developed brain. The mind's revolvings —as truly expressed—are * here represented in moving spirals, and the subtle insinuation of thought whose path is through all things, issues with power from the form of cerebral screws. They print their shape and make themselves room, and are the most irresistible things in the human world. If this is not the case, wby'is it that the idiot is so low down in the scale of intelligence? Why should his i mperfect organism of brain sink him so low P Surely the soul of Theologians and Spiritualists, which they grant to every man, ought—at the least—to elevate the poor imbecile to a level with the brute creation.—l am &c

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